girls:
224 births since 1985
#5492 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1960
#3469 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1960
#6385 (17th percentile)
The name Calin is the #6,385 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,358 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 17.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,469 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,134 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #5,492 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 224 births since 1985.
Calin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Calin is available in 46 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 26 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Calin has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Calin were boys.
For boys, Calin reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #822) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Calin ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 48.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Calin reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #889) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Calin".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Calin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Calin is pronounced as KA-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-lihn, at 40.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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